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{{quote|''"Zis is vhere mein infamous obzession mit die occult comes in handy!"''|'''[[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[BraininaBrain In A Jar]]''', ''[[Irregular Webcomic (Webcomic)|Irregular Webcomic]]'', [http://irregularwebcomic.net/121.html #121]}}
 
 
[[Draco in Leather Pants|With few exceptions]], pretty much [[Acceptable Targets|everyone agrees]] that the Nazis were very, '''very''' bad, what with the socio-political repression, the institutionalized racialist policies, the wars of aggression against their neighbors, the mass imprisonment and murder of dissidents and undesirables, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|forever ruining the reputation of eugenics and social Darwinism as serious academic disciplines]]. So, how do you make [[Those Wacky Nazis]] even more intimidating? Why, by giving them magic power and [[Eldritch Abomination]] allies, of course!
 
This is actually more plausible than it sounds. Nazism's roots are arguably traceable to an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nazism_and_occultism occult] group called the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society Thule Society], depending on which rumors you listen to, and a lot of the senior Nazis (including Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS) were intensely interested in the occult. Culturally the country was hip-deep in Teutonic tradition: some senior Nazis apparently wanted to gradually abolish German Christianity in favor of Norse gods after the war (the majority of them just wanted the state to absorb all the qualities of a religion instead), while in direct contradiction to the above (but hey, they're Nazis!), [[Adolf Hitler]] tried to get his hands on the [[Public Domain Artifact|Spear of Destiny]]. <ref>This last one was largely for the symbolic value, however -- contrary to popular belief, Hitler himself actually pooh-poohed the mystical notions associated with occultism for the most part, but he certainly appreciated the power and ideological value these myths possessed and took advantage of them however he could.</ref>
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[[Magitek|Or both.]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The ''[[Hellsing]]: Ultimate'' [[OVA|OVAs]] and the original ''[[Hellsing]]'' manga feature Nazi vampires en masse, as well as the more specialized Nazi werewolf, [[Improbable Aiming Skills|magical flintlock]] [[The Gunslinger|sharpshooter]], [[Mad Scientist]]/[[Morally -Ambiguous Doctorate|Doktor]], mesmerist, and quantum catboy fighters. For extra points, they ''also'' get advanced technology and weaponry in the form of advanced attack zeppelins armed with V-1 bombs and V-2 rockets, heavy weapons and armor, and microchips which can be used to monitor the location and progress of their troops from afar, and remotely incinerate them.
* Pretty much the entire plot of Part 2 of ''[[Jo JosJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''. Nazis resurrect four ancient vampires known as the Pillar Men, who begin to wreak havoc.
* The first season of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' has a pack of enemies called the SS whose leaders are obvious Nazi analogues. Their evil plot revolves around the occult powers of black magic and the main character's sister.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' had the Thule Society show up at the last second of the first Anime, with Nazi attempts to exploit Alchemy driving the plot of the first movie. Notable in how one character ends up helping the Thule Society...
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Hellboy (Comic Book)|Hellboy]]''. The titular demon was summoned to Earth by Nazi occultists, and the plans of the Third Reich regularly play upon the plot, in both the comic books and the films. President Truman personally sent the [[BPRD]] to Berlin in 1946 to catalog all the data pertaining to the Nazis' obsession with the occult - on account of American soldiers uncovering scores of... ''bizarre'' things since the city fell.
** Hoo, ''Hellboy'': [[Jet Pack|Jet Packs]], [[Lego Genetics]], [[Cyborg|Cyborgs]], [[BraininaBrain In A Jar|heads in jars]], and quality occult advice from ''[[Historical Villain Upgrade|Rasputin]]''; You name it, the Nazis had it. In the Mignola-verse, [[World War II]] was simply the public face of the decades-long "Occult Wars" which began shortly after [[World War I]] and lasted until the Allies finally killed Hitler - ''in 1958.'' Only Mignola knows how [[America Saves the Day|America Saved The Day]].
** In a ''[[The Savage Dragon]]'' crossover with ''Hellboy'', it was discovered that the [[BraininaBrain In A Jar|brain]] used by Brainiape, a [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys|gorilla]] with a powerful [[Psychic Powers|psychic brain]], was none other than Hitler's.
** When the brain leaped up and started walking, that's when the heroes called it...
* [[The DCU]] retconned away "[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=35%3Apropaganda-index&id=846%3Asuperman-joins-the-army&option=com_content&Itemid=24 Why] didn't [[Superman]] [http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=35%3Apropaganda-index&id=841%3Asuperman-on-top-of-the-world&option=com_content&Itemid=24 kick Hitler's ass]?" by [[Hand Wave|explaining that]] Hitler had [[Retcon|used the Spear of Destiny]] to brainwash any American hero who entered Germany's borders (In some stories, this extends to the entire Eastern Hemisphere) and send them off to attack the US.
** A [[Post -Crisis]] explanation says the Spear simply turns off super-human powers whenever a superhuman enters territory controlled by the Germans. So the JSA was just a bunch of normal guys if they got 'zapped'.
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], Hitler was [[Cloning Blues|cloned multiple times]] by a geneticist named Arnim Zola and repeatedly [[Body Surf|transferred his mind from body to body]]. In most of these bodies, he called himself the "Hate-Monger", wielded a "hate ray" that could [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|manipulate people's emotions]], and wore a costume that looked something like a purple version of the Klan's getup. Marvel eventually tried to distance themselves from the Hate-Monger by having him [[Sealed Evil in A Can|transfer his mind]] into a [[Artifact of Doom|Cosmic Cube]] that didn't actually work. [[Death Is Cheap|This being comics]], even Hitler couldn't stay dead forever, though.... Marvel has also raised the question of whether this is "really Hitler" or "just a mental copy of Hitler", which somehow never comes up when it's someone else using Zola's process (such as Zola himself).
* ''[[Danger Girl]]'' has The Hammer, a terrorist group led by a Nazi war criminal, who collect magical artifacts in order to revive an ancient [[Atlantis|Atlantean]] "Aryan superman". Of course, when said being actually appears, he kills most of them.
* In the [[Elseworld|Elseworlds]] story ''[[Justice Society of America|JSA]]: The Golden Age'', it's revealed that {{spoiler|an American super villain with a gimmick for switching his brains into other bodies replaced an American superhero and ran for Senate... and secretly transferred ''Hitler's'' brain into a [[Flying Brick]] to help him take over America.}}
** The comic also offered a similar [[Post -Crisis]] explanation for why none of the heroes tried to kill Hitler -- the Nazis had their own superhuman who had the ability to nullify any superpower.
* Even ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'' has to get in on the action. One flashback issue told of Bigby Wolf as a commando in WWII, stopping the Nazis for creating an army of [[FrankensteinsFrankenstein's Monster]] and [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf]] soldiers.
** Which raises some serious questions about the quality of their [[Masquerade]].
* The article picture comes from a [http://dsss.be/hitler-vs-stalin/ Russian comic] parodying WWII tropes in which Stalin fights Hitler with their respective magical powers.
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* In ''Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse'', there are some French (Neo-)Nazi monks trying to find a medieval artifact to help them build a new, pure France.
* This may fall partially under tech rather than magic, but ''[[Outpost (Film)|Outpost]]'' has a mercenary team of ex-Royal Marines trying to hold off the seemingly immortal bodies of resurrected SS. There's a half-century old machine within the bunker they were originally hired to search, and it's revealed to have the power to negate the Nazis' immortality when activated. The mercenaries turn it on {{spoiler|only for it to promptly break down, the last of the mercenaries (the captain) to die holding the Nazis off, and the scientist to try and escape through the ventilation shafts only to be met by the Nazis' commanding officer and a cut-to-black death.}}
* This is how the HYDRA rises to power in ''[[Captain America: theThe First Avenger (Film)|Captain America the First Avenger]]''. Originally just a sort of black ops division for the Nazi forces, when they find the Tesseract (a.k.a. Cosmic Cube) in Norway things take a drastic turn as they develop [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|hyper-advanced weapons systems]] like [[Fricking Laser Beams]] that can instantly vaporize their targets or all the [[Cool Plane|Cool Planes]] that the Nazis designed but never managed to build.
* Parodied in ''[[Night Train to Munich (Film)|Night Train to Munich]]:'' John Fredericks: Occultist and Ophthalmic Surgeon
 
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== Video Games ==
* The video game ''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]'' has you trying to prevent the Nazis of the SS Paranormal Division from {{spoiler|resurrecting an ancient Germanic warrior as an [[Super Soldier|invincible superweapon]]}}, while fighting off [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cybernetic zombie Super-Soldiers animated by dark magic]]. You actually fail. The {{spoiler|supposedly invincible demigod}}, however, reveals himself surprisingly weak to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|minigun bullets]]...
** In the 2009 sequel ''[[Wolfenstein (Video Game)|Wolfenstein]]'', the Paranormal Division is back, and takes this trope even further with extra-dimensional travel, Nazi mages, energy guns and yes, Nazis with jetpacks.
** In 1992's ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]'', the player also encounters fireball-throwing Hitler "ghosts" as minibosses leading up to the final encounter with MechaHitler. Furthermore, in the prequel, ''Spear Of Destiny'', the player must recover the titular Spear from Hitler's grasp, and encounters a supernatural protector called the Angel of Death.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' plays with this trope for all its worth, as indicated by the quote above. In one storyline, Montana Jones and his father try to stop the Nazis from getting their hands on all the world's major occult artifacts. The Nazis, in turn, are being ordered around by Hitler's [[BraininaBrain In A Jar]].
** The really strange thing is that the Montana Jones storyline takes place ''before'' World War II.
*** "Nazi science sneers at historical accuracy!"
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